Re: Wemo Bridge - 1/2 Devices showing "no response"

Ugh, are you sure about this? Seems like a lot of hoops. I'm not sure what a wifi network does to "reconfigure itself"... In any case these are bugs in the wemo bridge - all of the other devices and bridges work fine in HomeKit.

Here's an alternative. Grab your wemo bridge, and if you have one, your wemo link. Take them to your door and toss them as far as you can into the street. They won't work quite as well but they'll cause you a lot less frustration.

Belkin dropped the wemo link after running into bugs they couldn't fix. They could have talked to the sylvania folks and used their firmware, but chose to leave us stuck instead. The wemo bridge also has bugs they can't fix - how long till they drop that one too? No refund for the link, I expect the bridge will be the same.

After the bridge is hit by the first car, sit down and have a think. Do you really want web based IoT/Cloud services for home automation? Probably not - doing everything in home makes more sense. But Google wants you cloud connected, as does Amazon, and Apple, and Belkin, and especially China based companies. Your personal habits are gold to them.

The cloud is good for voice processing, and integrating devices from different vendors, and remote access (which, if you have good automation, you should seldom need to do). But it sure isn't the right place to be automating your home.